East Doc Platform

About the Company

The East Doc Platform (EDP) is the largest co-production, funding and distribution platform tailor-made for Central and East European documentaries. Every year, connecting 120 East European filmmakers to more than 100 key decision makers - producers, broadcasters, distributors and festival programmers from around the world.

The event is organized by the Institute of Documentary Film in association with the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. East Doc Platform brings the biggest number of the most important decision makers to the region. They are available for meetings to all EDP participants, as well as for accredited observers. East Doc Platform helps filmmakers to develop their story and visual style, and find suitable partners for co-production and distribution. This event will traditionally feature our staple activities, including:

The East Doc Forum (formerly known as East European Forum) is the flagship pitching opportunity for the funding and co-production of projects in the development/early production stage.

The East Doc Market offers curated meetings between filmmakers and decision makers to pitch projects in the late production/post-production stage.

The East Doc Interactive facilitates training, collaboration and networking opportunities between the storytellers using innovative approach & new technologies and potential partners through workshop and pitching session.

The East Doc Shorts is a new short-form documentary pitching taking place at the East Doc Platform, focusing on providing networking opportunities for the creators of short docs.

Within the EDP programme, one event is dedicated only to Czech documentary projects. During the presentation Czech Docs... Coming Soon, five upcoming feature documentaries will be introduced to an audience of the invited representatives of prestigious film festivals, sales agents, distributors and to the wide public.